Skeleton Cupcakes Recipes

SKELETON CUPCAKES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
• 2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps and add the remaining cake ingredients. Stir until smooth.
• 3. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let cool.
• 4. Frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add vanilla extract and slowly add in powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.
• 5. Roll frosting in sprinkles.
• 6. To make skeletons cut your straws or dowels into about 4-inch pieces. Melt a few squares on your almond bark, you'll use this as glue. Put a dollop of melted almond bark onto the straw near the upper half and thread a pretzel onto the straw and into the dollop of melted chocolate. Do this with two other pretzels to make your ribcage. (Holding the straw on each side and letting pretzels hang down, I could rest my ribcage on the table to let set. I hope that makes sense...) Use your edible marker to draw on your skeleton face, then push it onto the top of the straw. Push the whole straw into your cupcake. Break two pretzels to make your arms and wiggle them into the top pretzel! You can secure them with more almond bark if you need to!

CREEPY HALLOWEEN SKULL CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners, preferable dark-colored or Halloween-themed ones.
• Combine cake mix, water, eggs, and oil in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Beat at medium speed until batter is smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18 to 21 minutes. Remove from oven and cool tins on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the tins and cool completely on a wire rack before decorating, about 1 hour.
• Frost each cupcake with a thin layer of white vanilla frosting and refrigerate for 30 minutes to make decorating easier.
• Remove cupcakes from fridge and apply a second layer of white frosting. Fill a piping bag outfitted with a small round tip with chocolate frosting and draw a skull face on the cupcakes: pipe large ovals for the eyes, two dots for the nostrils, and a large "stitched" smile for the mouth.